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Google v. China: the larger issues

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Posted on January 15, 2010November 20, 2017 by Milton MuellerFree Expression Online, Geopolitics of IG

This comment from Professor Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski about the wider implications of Google's clash with China deserves the widest possible circulation. As they put it, at issue here is whether “the once unified global Internet space will begin a process of disintegration as countries define their own sovereign clouds.”

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Milton Mueller

Milton Mueller is a founder of IGP an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. He is the author of Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity, 2017), Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press, 2010) and Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002)

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